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CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OREGON. NOVEMBER 19, 1915
VOL. 11.
NO. 19
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“ I’ ll come stay with you forever, and
we don't need no men; don't like ’em
“ 1 don't see now you nave stood It at nohow!” «be was exclaiming down my
ull,” said Sallie, about to dissolve la back, when a drawl from the doorway
tears. "The love and protection and made us ail turn in that direction.
sympathy of a man are the only thiugs
“ Why, Henrietta, my own. can it be
in life worth auythiug to a woman you who utter such cruel sentiments
Since my loss I don't know what 1 in my absence?”
And Polk Hayes
would have done without Cousin James lounged into the room with the same
1 ou must come into bis kind care, daring listlessness that he bad used
Evelina.”
in trying to hold me hi Ills arms out on
*'I must learn to endure loneliness,” I the porch the night I bad said goodby
answered sadly, about to begin to gulp to him and Glendale four years ago.
from force of example, and ibe pres­
Henrietta s chubby little body gave n
sure of long hereditary intiuence.
wriggle o f delight, and much sentiment
I’m glad that 1 did not dissolve, how­ beamed In her rugged, small face as
ever. before what followed happened. sbe answered him with enthusiasm,
for in the twinkling of two bare feet though not stopping to couch her reply
1 was smothered in the embrace of j j„ exactly complimentary terms.
Henrietta, who in her rush brought) ''“ You dou't count. PokhV she ex
either the pup or the kit, 1 cau't tell claimed as she made a good nato red
which yet. along to hell) her infold me. face at him.
CHAPTER 3—Continued.
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"That's what Evelina said four years had spilled out of mo at tlie first en­
ago. and sbe Lias proved it.” lie an counter with Polk.
There is a great big bunt going on in
swered her. looking at uie Just exactly
this
world, and women aro the ones
as If be had never left off doing h
only a short lap ahead. Cun we turn
since that last dance.
IIow !ov«*l,v to titld you in the same and make good*the tight—or won't we
he torn to death? It has come to this
exuberant spirits In which I left you.
it seems: Women must either be weak
Polk', deni'!” 1 exclaimed as I got up to
und cling so close to man that she can't
go and shake bands with him. as be
bo struck, keep entirely out of the
bad sunk Into the most comfortable range of bis fists and arms, or develop
chair in the room without troubling to biceps equal to bis. Jane ought to
bestow that attention upon me.
have had me in training longer, for
Some men's hearts beat with such a I'm discovering that I’m weak- of bl
strong rhythm that every feminine ceps.
heart which comes within hearing dls
“ Are ytfu coming—aro yon coming to
tance immediately catches step and live with us, .Evelina? Aro you com ­
goes to waltzing. It lias been four years ing? Answer!” questioned the small
since mine swung around against his Henrietta as shq stood commuudingly
at that dance, but I'm glad Cousin in front of me.
.Martha was there'and interrupted us
“ Please. Evelina,” came In a coax
enough to make mo drug my eyes from from Sallie. while the kit crawled over
Ills as he looked up and I looked down
and caught at my skirt as Cousin Mar­
“ Please help us to persuade Evelina tha raised her eyes to mine with a gen­
to come and live with James and me. tle echo of the combined Woolngs.
Polk, dear.” she said, glancing at him
Then suddenly Into Polk'» eyes flam­
with the deepest confidence and affec­ ed still another demand that something
tion in her eyes. There is no age limit
told me I would have to answer luter.
to Polk’s victims, and Cousin Martha
I had capitulated and closed this book
had always adored him
forever when the deliverance cuiue.
“ All women do, Evelina, why not you
—live with James?’’ , he asked, and I
CHAPTEf^lV.
thought I detected a mocking flicker
Jasper and Petunia.
in his big,’ hazel, dangerous eyes.
“ If I ever need protection It will be
ASPBIl, a little older, but us black
James—and Cousin Martha I will run
uud pompous us ever, stood' in
to for it—but 1 never will,” I uuswered
the doorway und a portly figure
him very simply, with not u truce of
with yellow, shilling face *>u tho
the defiance 1 was fairly flinging at step behind him.
him in either my voice or manner.
"Why, Uncle Jasper, how did you
Paris and London and New York are know 1 was here?” I exclaimed as 1
ulce safe plnces to live in in cotnpuri- fairly ran to bold out tny hand to him.
i son with Glendale. Tenu., in some re
• Mil»’ James sent me word lust night,
■ spects. I wonder why I hadn't been und 1 would er been here by daybreak,
j more scared than 1 was last niglit as tnissie, kept 1 hud to hunt Uis ycro
I the train whirled me down Into prox­ snitaLlo woman to bring along with
imity to Polk Hayes. Put then 1 had me. Make your 'beeseiicu to Miss Eve­
had four years of forgetting him stored lina, Lucy Petunia,” lie commanded.
up as a bulwark.
"You uevdu't to bother to show her
“ But whut are you going to do, Eve­ anything, child,” he continued culmly.
lina?” Sallie again began to question, “ I'll learn her all «he needs to know
with positive ulartu In her voice, and 1
to suit us. Then if in u week she huve
saw that It was time for me to produce
shown sultablo ability to please us
some sort of a protector then and
botli my word Is out to murry her next
there or capitulate.
Sunday night. Ain’t that the uuder-
And 1 record the fact that I wanted
to go home with Sallie und Cousin ! standing. Tuny?" he tills time de­
Mnrtha and the babies and—and live manded.
“ Yes. sir,” answered the Petunia,
under the roof o f the mossback for­
rith
radiant but modest hope shining
ever. All that citizenship feeling 1
rom
her
comely yellow face.
bad got poured into me from Jane and
hud tried on Dickie, gooA old Dickie,
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